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🚨Launched today! Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers: ❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety, ❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice. Find out more👇 refugeewomen.co.uk/decade-of-harm/ 1/🧵

Many cells in UK detention centres are smaller than an average parking space. People are detained there by the Home Office without a time limit, often for months or years at a time, locked in that tiny space for up to 12 hours a day. This has to stop. It's time for a time limit.

Our 'Thinking with our communities: detention and beyond detention' event aims to build our communities’ collective power against detention and enforcement.

This judgment should remind the Home Office to undertake a thorough, lawful assessment of an individual’s evidence when making decisions on the reinstatement of trafficking support, esp where the person has mental health needs that have not been met. freemovement.org.uk/high-court-fin…

MPs are questioning why Labour's Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill changes previous guidance on the right to naturalisation after 'illegal' entry. This change was made w/o consultation + minimal communication, so has not been subject to scrutiny. committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

EDM 809 tabled in UK Parliament recognises: immigration detention is costly + punitive; cheaper, more humane alternatives to detention exist; the Home Office undertook community-based Alternative to Detention pilots. The EDM merits wide support from MPs edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

Labour MPs demand answers over Clearsprings’ mystery offshore payments bit.ly/41CRltj | read more ⤵️

As Prof Mary Bosworth says, the govt's new contract for more removal work portrays a lack of fresh ideas. It highlights a failure, or perhaps refusal, to understand how this business destroys both the lives of those subject to it and undermines wider social cohesion in the UK.

Stand Up! Speak Out! 2025, training developed by@FIRMCharter (SKNB), aims to help public sector workers use the power of their words in solidarity + for justice; know when and how to listen + learn from those they work with; and when not to share info. actionnetwork.org/event_campaign…

We are very much looking forward to the next seminar in our series, when @aamnamohdin of The Guardian will discuss her new book, 'Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee' 📆 Wednesday 26 February 📍 In person in Oxford rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/scatter…

🚨 First, another security-obsessed immigration bill. Then, live deportations on TV. Now, a refugee citizenship ban. We won't stand for this. Write to your MP now and demand solutions that work, starting with safe routes & a fair family reunion system 👇 act.safepassage.org.uk/ask-your-mp-op…

Exciting opportunity! Women Asylum Seekers Together is hiring a Development and Strategy Manager. For more info and to apply ⬇️ wastmanchester.com/join-us

A horrific case, raising more serious questions about the companies running asylum accommodation. Why are these companies allowed to keep extracting huge profits from services whilst failing in their duty of care and presiding over a litany of failings? hyphenonline.com/2025/02/17/meh…

Most refugees, even those with family here, have no safe way to reach the UK. Crossing the Channel may be their only option. It’s simply cruel to punish people who are fleeing persecution and conflict for trying to find safety or reunite with loved ones. theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

As @freemovementlaw reported, the High Court has upheld an award of £99k damages to a refugee. The govt likes to brag about rounding people up and detaining them with a view to removal, but all too often the person have every right to stay in the UK. freemovement.org.uk/high-court-uph…

148 organisations call on the Government to rethink measures to ban most refugees becoming citizens - no matter how long they've worked and contributed to British life. theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…

The House of Commons Public Bill Committee is set to consider the Border Security, Asylum & Immigration Bill. It's seeking views in writing from people with experience by 5pm 20 March. Oral evidence sessions are expected to be held on 27 February. parliament.uk/business/news/…

As @BellRibeiroAddy told MPs, the Bill could abolish the rights of people fleeing war or those trafficked to the UK. She criticised 'costly + cruel' immigration detention, set to increase as a result of the Bill. Instead, immigration cases could be managed in the community.

Last week saw the 2nd reading of the Border Security, Asylum + Immigration Bill in Parliament. Its 'smash the gangs' approach does nothing to tackle the causes of people making dangerous channel crossings to reach the UK. #saferoutes are needed now. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Data released after FOI requests shows 51 people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, more than a twelvefold rise since 2019. There is a shocking lack of scrutiny + accountability from the Home Office and a complete disregard for the lives of this vulnerable group.